02-26-2004, 08:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-26-2004, 08:29 AM by SkeletonMurderer.)
I\'m a studying mask maker and makeup effects artist and also spend time on the Monster Lab community message board. Some members are licenced to do pyrotechnics and squibbing and often offer their advice. The first thing they say is, nothing is ever 100% safe but it\'s always best to be as close as possible. I think if any of you fine Horror folk are getting ready to make a movie involving extensive or unsafe pyrotechnic/squib effects should go to TheMonsterLab.com and ask how to do safer alternatives to bullet hits and fire effects.
But if I were making a Myers VS Voorhees movie and had to set him on fire I would simply build a large dummy on a track whose arms could move on pulleys and the legs move on a mechanism as if marching forward while it burnt. All that full body burn stuff in the crop field in FvsJ could have easily been a dummy until he got to the rave. They could have made some room in their shooting time and had an effect that looked just as good.
But if I were making a Myers VS Voorhees movie and had to set him on fire I would simply build a large dummy on a track whose arms could move on pulleys and the legs move on a mechanism as if marching forward while it burnt. All that full body burn stuff in the crop field in FvsJ could have easily been a dummy until he got to the rave. They could have made some room in their shooting time and had an effect that looked just as good.